Fatigue? Body Aches? Could Be Sign of Vitamin D Deficiency
Feeling achy? Tired? It could be a sign that you’re suffering from vitamin D deficiency.
I take vitamin D (actually a hormone) daily but found out I was servery deficient. Some quick Internet searches showed Vitamin D deficiency isrelated to fatigue, body aches, depression heart disease, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimes, and much more! The doctor put me on prescription stength D 1.25 MG. I’ll let you know if it makes any difference.
D Builds and Protects Bone Health
Long recognized as important to the prevention of bone diseases, D vitamin builds and protects bone health and strength by regulating the amount of calcium our bones receive. Deficiency of this crucial vitamin has been identified as a cause of severe and disabling diseases such as rickets, osteoporosis, and osteomalasia. But recent research is showing that low levels of the vitamin could be behind simpler problems like body aches and muscle pains as well.
93 Percent Patients had Seriously Low Levels
A recent study by the University of Minnesota’s Community Health Care Center measured the D vitamin levels of 150 people being treated for persistent, unexplained body aches and pains. The results showed that 93 percent of the patients had seriously low levels of the vitamin. These results echo those of many other studies that have shown a direct correlation between otherwise unexplained body aches and deficiency of the sunshine vitamin.
In addition, emerging research indicates that supplementation can actually resolve many cases in which patients are virtually immobilized by persistent, unexplained body pain. A Saudi Arabian project involving 299 patients with chronic low back pain used D vitamin supplementation for a period of three months, which resulted in clinical improvement in every case.
These findings could be particularly important for older people, who are both generally more subject to chronic body aches and more prone to deficiency of vitamin D. Exposure to the sun triggers the body to manufacture vitamin D, but older people, particularly those who live in cold climates, tend to have significantly less sun exposure than the general population. This problem is compounded by the fact that the body’s ability to synthesize the vitamin decreases with age.
Other factors that influence the body’s ability to produce the vitamin include weight and skin color; heavier people and those with darker skin have more difficulty producing sufficient amounts of the vitamin.
Since there are relatively few dietary sources of the vitamin, sun exposure and fortified milk are both important to keeping blood levels of it sufficient. See articles below for recommendations for D vitamin suppliments.
Ongoing research is proving that there is a strong correlation between Vitamin D deficiency and critical illness. Learn more about how important this crucial vitamin is to both mental and physical health at all ages – visit Vitamin D Benefits
Links for More Information
- Vitamin D Benefits
- Study Shows More Benefits of Sunshine Vitamin
- Are You Vitamin D Deficient?
- Those With Low Vitamin D twice as Likely to Die
- Preventing vitamin D deficiency — the new breakthrough in women’s health?
- Dietary Supplement Fact Sheet: Vitamin D
- Vitamin D and Vitamin D Deficiency
- Are You Getting Enough Vitamin D? – WebMD
- Vitamin D – Mayo Clinic
- Vitamin D and Your Health
- Is Vitamin D Deficiency Casting a Cloud Over Your Health?
- Vitamin D Deficiency Worsens Breast Cancer?
- Vitamin D Deficiency is Common: Peoples Pharmacy
- Is There a Link Between Vit D and Heart Attacks
- 10 Myths About Vitamin D
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I’m actually waiting on my vitamin D blood work results:/
I am always fatigued but I know my levels are normal. Arghhh
I have been taking 30,000 IU for some months now and feel better than I have in years!
I plan to detail my journey as I begin blogging!
Look forward to how your health improves.
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Glad to hear you feel great Catherine as I have just found out my Vit D is low and i cant stop sleeping, im hardly getting thru my day at work then heading straight to bed. Im eating bad foor for energy and not exercising cause im so tired!! cant wait to feel better!
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I have been having muscle and joint pain. It started in my hands and moved to my knees, feet and ankles. I have been tested for autoimmune diseases and came up negative. But I have heard that you can still have one…which is very frustrating!! My vitamin D levels came back low but I do not know how low…the receptionist who gave me my results told me I was a little low and needed to take 5,000 iu’s of vitamin d a day. Do I need to take Calcium with the vitamin D? I have a follow up with my doctor in a few days. Just wondering if slightly low levels can cause so much pain in my hands and legs…it’s very scarey and frustrating.
Vitamin D and Calcium goes hand in hand. The simplest way to take in Vitamin D is through sun light as it helps in the synthesis process. But of course, try not to be overexposed.
I enjoy reading your post, thank you very much.
Vitamin D is known to be an important factor in immune system support, which is absolutely essential to the body’s ability to prevent sickness and other types of infections that are common during the winter months.
On the topic of Vitamin D, the importance of vitamin D in the development of cancer was further confirmed by a 2009 study by Sylvia Chistakos, Ph.D., of the UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School. Her research, shown in The Journal of Biological Chemistry, showed that the active form of vitamin D induces the creation of a protein that can stop the growth of breast cancer cells.
I just found out my Vitamin D level is 7 ng/mL. Normal range is 30-150. I just starting taking 4,000 iu per day of Vit D Drops per my doctor. I’m hoping this will solve the problem of me wanting to sleep “all” the time.